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Provision allows Senators to sue over phone searches
The bill that ends the government shutdown includes a provision that allows lawsuits from Republican Senators who had their phones searched in the investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
Here & Now's Peter O'Dowd speaks with Carol Leonnig, senior investigative reporter at MSNBC and co-author of the new book "Injustice: How Politics and Fear Vanquished America’s Justice Department."
This segment aired on November 13, 2025.